Bug#1109609: Removing old news from webpages
>>>>> On Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:19:25 +0100, "Jonathan Dowland" <jmtd@debian.org> said:
> There's nothing preventing us from replacing the list with a
> RewriteCond, it just needs someone to do the work. I could do it, but
> there are other Chronicles-related stuff I need to fix first.
Hi Jonathan,
I would be happy if you can do this in the future, but there's no
need to hurry.
> However, the solution I've gone for suffers from the problem I was
> trying to avoid (www delegating too much responsibility for what is a
> valid www URI to the Chronicles service), so a RewriteCond would be no
> worse from that perspective. Mea culpa, I did this in an incredible
> rush.
No problem.
There's not that much traffic to the old URLs (and maybe no traffic
to URLs that never exists), so you've tried to avoid a problem that
does not matter in reality.
> The list doesn't need changing at all unless you delete more content. I
> hope you aren't planning to do that, and certainly not on a regular
> basis!
I plan to only keep the last 3 years, so at some point in time (may
end of this year) another folder will be deleted.
> When you do wish to delete stuff, please don't automatically assume we
> will pick it up. It should be a conversation and agreement between the
> two services.
I'll keep you informed, so you will have enough time to prepare for it.
> Re-reading [2] you did suggest that the webteam could review the MR, but
> I didn't interpret that as "must" (and later forgot about it entirely).
> I iterated on the changes with DSA a few times and that never came up. I
> apologise, and will ensure to run all future www-related changes via the
> webteam.
It was not a must, so no big issue here. Currently we have a solution
that you are happy with and works for me too, and if you improve the
rewrite rules in the future, that would be perfect.
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best regards Thomas
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